Commonwealth of Independent States

Anticipating the policy environment in the CIS is especially challenging. Some of the more authoritarian leaning countries such as Belarus or Kyrgyzstan have issued outright prohibitions of civilian UAS operations, while others merely have no defined policy. Needless to say it is unwise to assume that an undefined policy equals any degree of permissiveness and so the CIS region presents a blind spot in the edification of global UAS regulations.